Found a Schwinn World Sport need help Re-building
02-09-11, 01:18 AM
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Found a Schwinn World Sport need help Re-building
Sooo Found a new project and I need all the help I can get...Sooo Super Bowl Sunday found this little guy on the side walk getting rained on and had to take it home...and THE WIFE APPROVED!!! sooo this is my first road bike and in just 48 hrs i have learned sooo much but heres what i know. Based on the tag number this is a 1988-89 Scwhinn World Sport and soo it has a horribly bent rear rim and a ridiculously flat front with a slight bend that would be $25 to re-true. here are the pictures that i have so far and i will add more as i add things and clean it up. So needless to say to make this old beauty to be ridable is gonna take at least new rim and tire set and also new breaks and re-wiring. Soo what i need is input from anyone with some Schwinn knowledge or basic rebuild stuffs...well shootz and mahalos!
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It should clean up and ride like new. Great find.
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Welcome to Bike Forums, GeenZee.
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welcome GeenZee. I can't see the pics but I am sure it is just my 'puter or something. depending on the style of the hubs you may be better of ditching the wheels and getting new ones.
OH here it is
yes I think I would certainly look into new wheels. you can pickup a decent pair for a bout $100 on some sites.
lots of MSG there
OH here it is
yes I think I would certainly look into new wheels. you can pickup a decent pair for a bout $100 on some sites.
lots of MSG there
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02-09-11, 07:31 PM
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Hmmm these pics look mighty familiar!
02-09-11, 08:42 PM
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Awesome thanks!!! And yes i have just walked ankle deep in the ocean of vintage bikes i will join for sure!
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but on a serious note is anyone selling any 27in wheel sets that aren't a fortune???
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Originally Posted by Juha
Just a side note: your pics require Facebook membership. There are some Amish here who don't have that, myself included.
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No offence intended but.....what? I'm trying really hard to make the Facebook - Amish connection
Just a side note: your pics require Facebook membership. There are some Amish here who don't have that, myself included.
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yea the Hubs are JoyTech don't know if those are good or not but i am gonna save them...as far as the size its a 56mm which i know is a bit big for me but its what i got now and i wanna fix it up....later on i will definitely get a more fitted vintage...either that or grow like 5 inches...TEEHEE >_<
but on a serious note is anyone selling any 27in wheel sets that aren't a fortune???
but on a serious note is anyone selling any 27in wheel sets that aren't a fortune???
I ended up replacing my wheels with the ones from harris cyclery (sheldon brown's old shop). The rear retains the freewheel hub, but they're the modern sealed bearing type. They are heavy duty 36spoke so I was happy. The Sun rims could be nicer though.
The original changstar brakes should have enough reach, but I got tired of adjusting the craptacular single pivot calipers all the time so just got a cheap set of long reach dual pivots (I think they were $25 including shipping on ebay). Oh that also means you might have to get a pair of cheap levers since those stock changstar levers SUCK. BTW I had to drill out the fork and rear brake bridge for the recessed nuts.
Here's a positive note: The indexed shimano drivetrain is GREAT. Sure they're stem mounted, but man they're smooth. I almost like them better than the ultegra 9spd and SRAM rival brifters I have on my nicer bikes. Almost!
All in all I must have spent $200 (and some spare parts/accessories) to turn my worldsport into a pretty nice utility/commuter bike. It's a very smooth ride. Oh and I feel like replacing the wheels and brakes made the bike noticeably lighter.
Here it is a few months ago near the unfinished brooklyn bridge park. I've since changed the tires to Vittoria Randonneurs. They don't roll as nice but they're tough and hard wearing, which is what I need on a commuter/rain bike.
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The joytech hubs aren't exactly wonderful, but if the previous owner did not ride too much in the rain or at least maintained them on a regular basis they should work fine for a while. You will have to maintain them often if you ride through the wet or dusty conditions, there are no seals and the grease gets nasty easily. My trash day 88 WS probably has the same joytech hubs and they're pitted to hell. Gotta say though that the araya rims are tough as nails. I abused the hell out of those wheels including several nasty pothole incidents and those rims are still great. Just wish the hubs were better quality.
I ended up replacing my wheels with the ones from harris cyclery (sheldon brown's old shop). The rear retains the freewheel hub, but they're the modern sealed bearing type. They are heavy duty 36spoke so I was happy. The Sun rims could be nicer though.
The original changstar brakes should have enough reach, but I got tired of adjusting the craptacular single pivot calipers all the time so just got a cheap set of long reach dual pivots (I think they were $25 including shipping on ebay). Oh that also means you might have to get a pair of cheap levers since those stock changstar levers SUCK. BTW I had to drill out the fork and rear brake bridge for the recessed nuts.
Here's a positive note: The indexed shimano drivetrain is GREAT. Sure they're stem mounted, but man they're smooth. I almost like them better than the ultegra 9spd and SRAM rival brifters I have on my nicer bikes. Almost!
All in all I must have spent $200 (and some spare parts/accessories) to turn my worldsport into a pretty nice utility/commuter bike. It's a very smooth ride. Oh and I feel like replacing the wheels and brakes made the bike noticeably lighter.
Here it is a few months ago near the unfinished brooklyn bridge park. I've since changed the tires to Vittoria Randonneurs. They don't roll as nice but they're tough and hard wearing, which is what I need on a commuter/rain bike.
I ended up replacing my wheels with the ones from harris cyclery (sheldon brown's old shop). The rear retains the freewheel hub, but they're the modern sealed bearing type. They are heavy duty 36spoke so I was happy. The Sun rims could be nicer though.
The original changstar brakes should have enough reach, but I got tired of adjusting the craptacular single pivot calipers all the time so just got a cheap set of long reach dual pivots (I think they were $25 including shipping on ebay). Oh that also means you might have to get a pair of cheap levers since those stock changstar levers SUCK. BTW I had to drill out the fork and rear brake bridge for the recessed nuts.
Here's a positive note: The indexed shimano drivetrain is GREAT. Sure they're stem mounted, but man they're smooth. I almost like them better than the ultegra 9spd and SRAM rival brifters I have on my nicer bikes. Almost!
All in all I must have spent $200 (and some spare parts/accessories) to turn my worldsport into a pretty nice utility/commuter bike. It's a very smooth ride. Oh and I feel like replacing the wheels and brakes made the bike noticeably lighter.
Here it is a few months ago near the unfinished brooklyn bridge park. I've since changed the tires to Vittoria Randonneurs. They don't roll as nice but they're tough and hard wearing, which is what I need on a commuter/rain bike.
02-10-11, 12:12 AM
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The original changstar brakes should have enough reach, but I got tired of adjusting the craptacular single pivot calipers all the time so just got a cheap set of long reach dual pivots (I think they were $25 including shipping on ebay). Oh that also means you might have to get a pair of cheap levers since those stock changstar levers SUCK. BTW I had to drill out the fork and rear brake bridge for the recessed nuts.
Here's a positive note: The indexed shimano drivetrain is GREAT. Sure they're stem mounted, but man they're smooth. I almost like them better than the ultegra 9spd and SRAM rival brifters I have on my nicer bikes. Almost!
All in all I must have spent $200 (and some spare parts/accessories) to turn my worldsport into a pretty nice utility/commuter bike. It's a very smooth ride. Oh and I feel like replacing the wheels and brakes made the bike noticeably lighter.
Here it is a few months ago near the unfinished brooklyn bridge park. I've since changed the tires to Vittoria Randonneurs. They don't roll as nice but they're tough and hard wearing, which is what I need on a commuter/rain bike.
Here's a positive note: The indexed shimano drivetrain is GREAT. Sure they're stem mounted, but man they're smooth. I almost like them better than the ultegra 9spd and SRAM rival brifters I have on my nicer bikes. Almost!
All in all I must have spent $200 (and some spare parts/accessories) to turn my worldsport into a pretty nice utility/commuter bike. It's a very smooth ride. Oh and I feel like replacing the wheels and brakes made the bike noticeably lighter.
Here it is a few months ago near the unfinished brooklyn bridge park. I've since changed the tires to Vittoria Randonneurs. They don't roll as nice but they're tough and hard wearing, which is what I need on a commuter/rain bike.
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The original changstar brakes should have enough reach, but I got tired of adjusting the craptacular single pivot calipers all the time so just got a cheap set of long reach dual pivots (I think they were $25 including shipping on ebay). Oh that also means you might have to get a pair of cheap levers since those stock changstar levers SUCK. BTW I had to drill out the fork and rear brake bridge for the recessed nuts.
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Love the bike!!! man sooo yea mine is definitely a 89 and is a long way off from look as clean as that...but about how much are the tires you bought for those nice shiny 27's? Also are the Vittoria Randonneurs the best for rain/commuter that you have used or the best that are made to date...
If your frameset is straight, I wouldn't worry too much about a little surface rust or paint all too much. I see frames like ours being abused by delivery guys and commuters here in NYC and they're in piss poor shape, yet the frames keep on going and going...
The wheels I bought from Harris are 700c. I did that because 700c has a lot more tire choices. I'm not sure if they make the randonneurs for 27", but I got mine for "free" from another bike I bought. I think they're in the $20-30 range new? If you're keeping the original wheels, people seem to like Panaracer Pasela tourguards. One note of warning, the plain Pasela sized 27 x 1 1/4" was too tall and rubbed on the brake bridge on my world sport (frame size is 23").
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Nice find - good, solid bike. Head up to Seattle Center on Sunday and check out the bike swap - you might be able to find a complete wheelset or some longer reach brakes to allow you to go to 700c wheels. Experience has shown wheelsets are quite affordable at the swap meet. I passed up a set of nice aero style Campy tubular wheels with Campy hubs 2 yrs ago that was $15 because I wasn't riding sew ups. Guess what - a year later and I'm 95% tubulars and wishing I had bought that wheelset. I've seen several sets of 27" wheels there in the past.
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The brakes are easily the worst part of my wife's 1990 World Sport, I was considering replacing them with a set of dual pivot Tektros until recently (a better bike just came along...) I replaced the levers with a set of Shimano 600, then Tektro RL100A, but the calipers flex so much that there was no improvement in the braking.
My replacement brakes were a take off from a Cannondale (still has their logo), but they're rebranded tektros, not sure what model. I paired it with new short reach tektro levers and they stop much better than the changstars. Some flex but it could just be the cheap cable housing I used.